Regarding your near death experience, it has nothing to do with science, it can not be explained or not not explained or qualified or disqualified or even itnerpreted int he framework of science.. it has nnothign to do with science...
We don't have the tools needed to even attempt a full understanding of the operation of the brain. We might someday.
The best argument I've seen against ever having an understanding of the brain (I think Sven has brought it up before, and I have seen it elsewhere) is "the brain can't understand itself." I don't agree with it, but it's interesting to consider.
you are the media you consume.
And if we are smart enough we may know what a machine register while In wales is having the experience... but actually you can not.. becase you will not have feedback witht he subject.. so you might guess how the experience looks in an scan...
and then maybe you can check if there is something universal in those tscans...but agan this would be the repitition of NDE... not the particualr experience. It wil eb exactly as quantum field theory... it looks like everything is asicallya quantum field if weonly knew how to put gravitiy in it.. does it mean reaity are really matehamtical functions behaving in a quantic fashion? Who knows....and as far as science is concerened, nt interesting... after all your everyday experience is the incredible thing.
So, the particualr experience of In wales, is and will always be out-of science..as Miger says, science is not useful any more... your trust of the other person, your skills to know other people, your critical skills and frienship or your particular vision of the world will make sense of it.. not science..
So, yes one day we could know how the experience looks in a t-scan and make science of out it..actually, if it were not for what brit points out, we could try out right now... but the level of noise in data makes it impossible and the different cultural background of woos-woos and unscientific scientists folks makes it almost impossible.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
the different cultural background of woos-woos and unscientific scientists folks makes it almost impossible
Yep.
That depends on whether or not we have privileged access to our mental states. We're not yet in a position to answer that.
and the different cultural background of woos-woos and unscientific scientists folks makes it almost impossible.
I'm assuming our brain scanner can pick up the structures formed by the culture that the person's brain developed in along with the brain activity that occurs during the event in question. That gives us both ends of the relative nature of experience. From there it's a question of whether or not psychology is a science. I don't have an opinion on that, but the older I get the more I'm certain it's not a yes or no question, or even important, for that matter.
